“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life is an ongoing journey where the intrepid traveler explores as many tributaries in the river of life as possible. Living consists… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind -… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Early on in the writing process, there is sometimes this temptation to write around the central drama instead of just aiming for… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“It’s very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the… — Ron Dakron Copy Share Image
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
And when you start the season writing process, you just pitch a bunch of different ideas. In the end, you probably have… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
“Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write… — Baby Halder Copy Share Image
